https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwrjAa1SgjQ
Boston Dynamics reveals the latest capabilities of its quadruped robot Spot (which has an arm for a head and can open doors) and Atlas, its humanoid bot which is, God help us all, running around the forest on a tether now.
Previously: Son Of Big Dog
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boston dynamics is an anagram of skynet!!! (if you take some letter out, and add some new ones in)
And if you time travel you can do that with letters!!!
The stuff of nightmares…
In fairness we’ve all walked liked that more than once.
I’m not sure why robotics people are trying so hard to create a bi-pedal robot when its one of the most inefficient way of walking according to evolutionary biologists.
Still, it looks badass
We can share our trousers with them.
Our world homes, our streets and workplaces are built specifically to accomodate the human body shape, doors , handles, kitchen counters, stairs.
If we wont robots to serve us around the home it would be an ideal form. Although it’s probably more likely they’ll be handing this thing a rifle or a parking ticket printer.
*if we want
Just say sex robots. Its quicker
Wonder what happens when it falls over.
think I saw him walking through Temple Bar last weekend
I, for one, welcome our new robotic overlords…
Whatever the spiel about these things, they are obviously being developed for military purposes (why else have one running through a forest and not, say, navigating a busy shopping mall…). Sinister.
Because forest floors are fairly uneven compared to shopping malls. The challenge here is that it’s constantly readjusting to a unpredictable surface not that it’s avoiding obstacles.